# mucha
## Japanese
### Romanization

mucha
* Rōmaji transcription of むちゃ

## Lower Sorbian
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mùxa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmuxa/

### Noun

mucha f
* fly (insect)

#### Further reading

* Starosta, Manfred (1999) “mucha”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
* Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “mucha”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008

## Old Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (13th CE) /ˈmuxa/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ˈmuxa/

### Noun

mucha f
* Alternative form of múcha

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “mucha”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Spanish muchacho (“boy”) and Spanish muchacha (“girl”).
Note: In Papiamentu mucha homber is a boy, mucha muhe is a girl.

### Noun

mucha
* child (young person)

## Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mùxa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmu.xa/
* (Masovia):
** (Ostróda) IPA: /ˈmu.xa/
** (Far Masovian) IPA: /ˈmu.xa/
* Audio 1:(file)
* Audio 2:(file)
* Rhymes: -uxa
* Syllabification: mu‧cha
* Homophone: Mucha

### Noun

mucha f (diminutive muszka, augmentative muszysko, related adjective muszy)
* fly (any insect of the order Diptera)
* bow-tie (necktie shaped like a bow)
* (Far Masovian) spirit in the branch of an elder bush
* (Ostróda) pith (core of a tree)
    Synonym: rdzeń

#### Derived terms

* muchowaty
* burczymucha
* muchołówka
* muchomor
* muchówka

#### Related terms

* mszyca

### Further reading

* mucha in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* mucha in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* mucha in PWN's encyclopedia
* Stanisław Ciszewski (1909) “mucha”, in “Przyczynek do słownika gwary mazowieckiej”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 7, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 207
* Kazimierz Nitsch (1907) “mucha”, in “Dyalekty polskie Prus zachodnich”, in Materyały i Prace Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie (in Polish), volume 3, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 390

## Slovak
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mùxa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmuxa]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mucha f (relational adjective mušací or muší, diminutive muška, augmentative mušisko)
* fly (insect)

#### Derived terms

* mušisko
* muška

#### Further reading

* “mucha”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmut͡ʃa/ [ˈmu.t͡ʃa]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -utʃa
* Syllabification: mu‧cha

### Determiner

mucha f sg
* feminine singular of mucho

### Pronoun

mucha m
* feminine singular of mucho

## Upper Sorbian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mùxa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmuxa/
* Rhymes: -uxa
* Hyphenation: mu‧cha
* Syllabification: mu‧cha

### Noun

mucha f
* (zoology) fly

#### Declension
### References

* “mucha” in Soblex

## Yola
### Alternative forms

* muche, much

### Etymology

From Middle English muche, muchel, from Old English myċel, miċel, from Proto-West Germanic *mikil, from Proto-Germanic *mikilaz. The unetymological /ә/ was inserted when between consonants.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmʊt͡ʃə/, /mʊt͡ʃ/

### Adjective

mucha
* big, much
** 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 27:Mucha boagher.A big or high road.
** 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 78:Mucha whithel.A winnowing sheet.
** 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 80:Th' mucha zea sthroan.The great sea-strand.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 57